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[Day 3] Assessment Grid By Chris Nicholas

2.
Development
“Missile people look down at the World;
submarine people look up.”
inhabitants around
Access to data, computers,
software, and bandwidth is great,
but....SO WHAT ??
AssessmentGRID: looking around
Assess reality and choices to optimize outcomes, at
many levels
END-END coupled decision support
SCALABLE, billable, information “ecosystem”
Sustainable,
Information as a critical weapon in the struggle against Malthus

15.
The Time for AssessmentGRID is NOW
Doubling food production in 30 years
Climate change
Exhaustible resources (credit, topsoil, fish stocks, etc)
Temper the GEOSS, SERVIR, and other hype. CEOS members: get over
the delusion that 10 meter resolution optical data has significant per-scene
commercial value and give it away, like CBERS. Kenya: cut through the
absurd/corrupt politics of receiving Landsat at Malindi
UNEP/DEWA: Live up to your charter, and produce more than glossy books and
brochures. DRIVE GEF and Wbank science-based project lifecycle accountability.
Initiate and ”referee” a set of 'Peace Games' with everything science can bring to
bear, fully visible to the public
Google and Microsoft: give more than lip service to OGC standards with your
imagery and vector data archives. Track usage with IPDR records
ESRI/ITC: help define and implement an Arc/Appliance that is compatible with
FOSS
CGIAR-CSI: recognize that empowering YOU is what GEOSS must be
all about...and assume your central role

16.
“There is no more new frontier....
.....We have got to make it here.”
Thank you
chrisgnicholas@att.net